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Recreation is avocational activity that, typically, refreshes one's body or mind. Recreation is often distinguished from leisure.
Recreation is refreshment of one's body or mind. Recreation is often distinguished from leisure. Where leisure is, or ought to be, restful, recreation is refreshing and diverting.

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Music and dance play an important part of recreation in many cultures. So do sports and hobbies, of course, and sometimes food and drink.
Music and dance serve as recreation in many cultures, as do sports and hobbies and sometimes food and drink.

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Drugs are sometimes used as a form of recreation (see recreational drug use)--and, like dancing, sex, and some other forms of recreation, regarded in some or all forms, by very many people for various reasons, as illicit activity.
We sometimes use drugs as a form of recreation (see recreational drug use)--and, like dancing, sex, nudism, and other forms of recreation which many people treat as illicit.

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The weekend is typically a time for recreation, perhaps (in Judeo-Christian and Muslim cultures) because the Sabbath falls on the weekend and the Sabbath is "the day of rest." Holidays are also a common time for recreation.
The weekend is typically a time for recreation, perhaps (in Judeo-Christian and Muslim cultures) because the Sabbath falls on the weekend and the Sabbath is "the day of rest." Holidays are also a common time for recreation.


What are our priorities for writing in this area? To help develop a list of the most basic topics about recreation, please see recreation basic topics.

Recreation is refreshment of one's body or mind. Recreation is often distinguished from leisure. Where leisure is, or ought to be, restful, recreation is refreshing and diverting.

Music and dance serve as recreation in many cultures, as do sports and hobbies and sometimes food and drink.

We sometimes use drugs as a form of recreation (see recreational drug use)--and, like dancing, sex, nudism, and other forms of recreation which many people treat as illicit.

The weekend is typically a time for recreation, perhaps (in Judeo-Christian and Muslim cultures) because the Sabbath falls on the weekend and the Sabbath is "the day of rest." Holidays are also a common time for recreation.


What are our priorities for writing in this area? To help develop a list of the most basic topics about recreation, please see recreation basic topics.

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